naming the next major release

Marco Martin notmart at gmail.com
Tue Aug 20 08:56:41 UTC 2013


On Tuesday 20 August 2013, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:

> 
> That’s also what I see in the openSuse packages.
> 
> So, yes, I got the # wrong .. it’s 3, not 5 currently .. so we’d end up
> with 4 unless we skip it go to 5. Still, the “number used in the name
> doesn’t match the version number of <insert component here>” comment
> remains

uuh, right, build from master does a so.3..
hmm, wonder where the 4 is gone, if was ever "decided" or just done by 
mistake...
so do we go for .4 (until we have time?)

> Basically, I’m suggesting that naming the product after the version of the
> software isn’t a necessity and may not even be possible unless we elevate
> one specific component to be the “defining” component, which I don’t think
> we ought to do.

yes, more and more evident that things like library versions are to be seen as 
a small implementation detail ;)

-- 
Marco Martin


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